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SALT LAKE CITY

Most Famous People Born in Salt Lake City, United States

Notable people
739
Peak decade
1980s
Median birth year
1940
Most distinctive
Church 26.0×

Salt Lake City has the most denominationally distinctive profile in the country: a Church count better than twenty-five times the global baseline, a Missionary bench not far behind, and a Religious cluster reinforcing them — essentially the LDS hierarchy and its worldwide mission system rendered as a statistic. Outside the temple, the Skier roster runs through Alta and Deer Valley, and a quieter Novelist vein catches the Mormon-letters generation out of the Utah publishing scene.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Salt Lake City during each.

Notable Births by Decade

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What Salt Lake City Is Known For

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Actor is Salt Lake City's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (79).

Salt Lake City over-indexes on church26.0× the global rate.

Salt Lake City under-produces painter — only 0.7× the global rate.

  1. Actor79
  2. Politician66
  3. Football55
  4. Lawyer27
  5. Writer26
  6. Basket25
  7. Baseball21
  8. Sport17
  1. Church1026.0×
  2. Missionary1418.9×
  3. Religious1116.4×
  4. Skier84.2×
  5. Novelist82.7×
  6. Basket252.7×
  7. Baseball212.5×
  8. Screenwriter82.5×
  1. Painter130.7×
  2. Football550.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Salt Lake City's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Showing 58 of 739 notable people

0001 ACTOR

Loretta Young

1913 - 2000

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0010 RELIGIOUS

Gordon B. Hinckley

1910 - 2008

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0012 ACTOR

Robert Walker (actor, born 1918)

1918 - 1951

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0028 PHYSICIST

Simon Ramo

1913 - 2016

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0029 ACTOR

Parley Baer

1914 - 2002

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0033 ACTOR

Sally Blane

1910 - 1997

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0065 ACTOR

Arleen Whelan

1914 - 1993

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0069 POLITICIAN

Frank Moss (politician)

1911 - 2003

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0071 ACTOR

Paul Langton

1913 - 1980

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0087 NOVELIST

Raymond F. Jones

1915 - 1994

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0117 ACTOR

Art Lund

1915 - 1990

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0143 DIVER

Dorothy Poynton-Hill

1915 - 1995

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0150 WRITER

Daya Mata

1914 - 2010

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0176 DIPLOMAT

David S. King

1917 - 2009

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0182 NOVELIST

Thomas Savage (novelist)

1915 - 2003

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0184 ANTHROPOLOGIST

William Mulloy

1917 - 1978

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0191 ART DIRECTOR

Richard Irvine

1910 - 1976

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0205 PHYSICIST

Hartland Snyder

1913 - 1962

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0227 ANIMATION

Ernie Nordli

1912 - 1968

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0271 CHEMIST

Esmond Emerson Snell

1914 - 2003

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0276 PAINTER

Frederick Hammersley

1919 - 2009

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0288 WRITER

Dale Morgan

1914 - 1971

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0314 FOOTBALL

Fred Gehrke

1918 - 2002

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0339 ACTOR

Shep Houghton

1914 - 2016

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0357 ACADEMIC

Homer R. Warner

1911 - 2012

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0398 FOOTBALL

Frank Christensen

1910 - 2001

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0426 ARTIST

Theodore Wassmer

1910 - 2006

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0431 CRIMINAL

Leroy Nash

1915 - 2010

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0435 ANIMATOR

Cliff Nordberg

1917 - 1979

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0446 RELIGIOUS

Florence S. Jacobsen

1913 - 2017

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0450 ECONOMIST

Karl A. Fox

1917 - 2008

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0451 LAWYER

David Thomas Lewis

1912 - 1983

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0460 BUSINESS

J. Sterling Livingston

1916 - 2010

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0471 SPORT

Wendell Rollins

1917 - 1990

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0473 POLITICIAN

Edwin Q. Cannon

1918 - 2005

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0475 LITERARY

Jack H. Adamson

1918 - 1975

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0488 SHERIFF

Peter J. Pitchess

1912 - 1999

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0513 ACADEMIC

Joel Dorius

1919 - 2006

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0517 ACTOR

Ge Ge Pearson

1917 - 1975

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0532 MILITAR

Gerry H. Kisters

1919 - 1986

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0534 AUDIO

Herbert Taylor (monteur)

1916 - 1982

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0573 FOOTBALL

Paul McDonough

1916 - 1960

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0587 LAWYER

Aldon Junior Anderson

1917 - 1996

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0594 ENGINEER

Mary Blade

1913 - 1994

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0603 PUBLISHER

John W. Gallivan

1915 - 2012

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0605 ENTREPRENEUR

Pete Harman

1919 - 2014

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0625 ATHLETIC

Leland McPhie

1914 - 2015

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0639 MISSIONARY

Glen L. Rudd

1918 - 1987

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0649 BASKET

Elwood Romney

1911 - 1970

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0661 LAWYER

Robert S. Stevens (judge)

1916 - 2000

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0670 ENGINEER

Frederic Parke

Born 1913

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0672 CRYPTOGRAPHER

Frank W. Lewis

1912 - 2010

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0675 MUSIC

Helen Taylor (Komponistin)

1915 - 1950

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0677 BUSINESS

Walter E. Cosgriff

1914 - 1961

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0679 OFFICER

Charles R. Stimpson

1919 - 1983

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0689 PAINTER

Montyne

1916 - 1989

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0720 JUDGE

Roald A. Hogenson

1913 - 1987

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0735 LAWYER

E. R. Callister Jr.

1916 - 1980

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